Questions
- How did Spain and Portugal structure their overseas empires? How were they similar/ different?
- What role did the Catholic church play in sustaining (or challenging) colonial authority?
- Why was labour, and disputes over labour, so important for colonisers and colonised?
- How did administrative and economic structures affect ordinary people's lives? Was there anything they could do to resist or change their circumstances?
- What links might we draw between political, economic, and social history of the Iberian colonies?
Required Seminar Reading: please read AT LEAST ONE of the following three sources (two if you're able). Remember also to follow the 'story' by reading relevant chapter(s) in the survey text you've chosen.
- “Government and Church in the Spanish Indies”, in ed. Benjamin Keen, Latin American Civilization: History and Society, 1492 to the Present, Westview Press (Boulder, 1996), 6th edition, pp. 103-112. (some useful primary sources and a nineteenth-century history of the period) see Library Scans Page
- Metcalf, Alida C., Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822, “Introduction” (e-book available at Library)
- Lane, Kris “Africans and Natives in the Mines of Latin America,” in Matthew Restall (ed.), Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005)
CC seminar PPT
RD Seminar Handout
Additional Reading
- Bigelow, Allison Margaret, Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World Chapel Hill, NC, 2021.
- Bryant, Sherwin. “Enslaved Rebels, Fugitives, and Litigants: The Resistance Continuum in Colonial Quito.” Colonial Latin American Review, 13:1 (2004): 7-46
- Dueñas, Alcira.Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City": Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru University Press of Colorado, 2010.
- Jacobsen, Nils and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada, “The Long and Short of It: A Pragmatic Perspective on Political Cultures, Especially for the Modern History of the Andes,” in Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950, ed. Jacobsen and Aljovín, Durham, Duke, 2005.
- Owensby, Brian. Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008)
- Schwartz, Stuart B, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985)
- Spalding, Karen. Huarochirí: An Andean Society under Inca and Spanish Rule. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984.
Primary Sources for additional reading:
- Guaman Poma, The First New Chronicle and Good Government
- “Government and Church in the Spanish Indies”, in ed. Benjamin Keen, Latin American Civilization: History and Society, 1492 to the Present, Westview Press (Boulder, 1996), 6th edition, pp. 103-112. (Library scans) (some useful primary sources and a nineteenth-century history of the period)
- Pizzigoni, Caterina and Townsend, Camilla. Indigenous Life After the Conquest: The De la Cruz Family Papers of Colonial Mexico, University Park, USA: Penn State University Press, 2021.(E-Book in the Library)
